Posted on 06/04/2024 12:23:46 PM PDT by DallasBiff
From its first issue in 1953, Playboy’s publisher Hugh Hefner sought to distinguish it from the sleazy sex magazines stored under the newsstand counter and sold in brown paper bags. He once explained that he chose a rabbit as the magazine’s mascot “because of the humorous sexual connotation,” but dressed him in a tuxedo “to add the idea of sophistication.” The models may have been nude, but the articles were written by acclaimed authors like Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, and Vladimir Nabokov and covered highbrow topics including “Picasso, Nietzsche, [and] jazz,” to quote Hefner’s introductory editorial. Even JFK read it
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Pornography in this country is and always was a highly destructive behavioral weapon perpetrated against the people by the CIA.
The girls in that 1953 photo are average.
I’m watching the early- to mid-1950s “Death Valley Days” TV show, the western anthology series. Every episode has some absolutely stunning beauty in the mining camps or in the ranches. She’s always the love interest of the protagonist. The period clothes, gorgeous hair, and beautiful women — wow.
It’s interesting that quite a few of the episodes have the women in very strong roles. Not in today’s stupid “wonder” woman genre, but strong frontier, pioneer, farm, and ranch women leading things. They aren’t there just to make the men dinner.
Yep, I remember jokes about how some men claimed to read Playboy for the articles.
If I recall correctly there were court cases back in those days about pornography. And among the criteria involved dealing with whether a publication or a movie had any redeeming social value.
Playboy from the pastis pretty tame compared to modern pornography, and anything goes with internet pornography.
Hefner was the precursor to Howard Stern.
I dated a Bunny. She had nothing but the utmost respect for the professionalism required of the job. She was also in the Miss America pageant, a Budweiser girl, and an Pan Am world airways stewardess. Pan AM and Playboy were the two that seem to have been professional orgs worthy of her respect.
Ditto
Wasn’t Hugh Hefner’s mansion the original (Epsteinesque) Honey Trap for celebrities and wealthy?
“The girls in that 1953 photo are average.”
Today they’d be extraordinary.
No tattoos, no drugs, no criminal records, no weird hair colors, no angry feminist outlook on life, no idiotic feminist ‘know-it-all’ glasses, no men’s haircuts...
Yes, I’d call them extraordinary.
Four average-looking Caucasian females.
Jimmy Carter did a Playboy interview in 1976 when he was running for President—and shot himself in the foot with his “lusting in his heart” comment.
Good point.
Fortunately, our kids are all clean-cut as are their husbands, boyfriend, and girlfriend. Couple of small hidden tats and one piercing, but none of the crap you listed. And all their friends are clean-cut like that, too.
LOL...the REAL Bunny Suit! I’d wager Obama is in their directing Biden.
Mine too. Until they all decided to get matching tats commemorating a long-standing family tradition.
In 1978, while in college, I paid $125 for a lifetime subscription to Playboy. It was around $2.00 an issue then. That was over a weeks pay from my job then.
I got the magazine till it stopped printing a few years ago. I had long since stopped even opening it. Sold them all on ebay.
I watched a youtube video of a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Oakland CA in 1978. Cute California girls. No tats or piercings. No blue hair. None of today’s nonsense.
“ The girls in that 1953 photo are average.”
The girls in the bunny suits were waitresses in the Playboy Club.
The magazine centerfold girls were hotter.
Porn or so called Porn has been around LONG before the CIA was created
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